鈥淭o advance our understanding of animal perspectives and human-animal relationships we need to move beyond discipline specific assumptions and concepts.鈥�
The research of Mona F. Giersberg is located at the interface of (animal) welfare, sensor- and AI-based technologies, and ethics. As a researcher she realized that many animal-related societal issues are too complex to be tackled by the methods of veterinary- and animal science alone. Giersberg sought collaboration with working groups in the fields of humanities and social sciences and expanded her methodologies to include various empirical and non-empirical approaches from these disciplines. With her research profile, she contributes in a unique way to solving the challenge of improving animals鈥� lives and how we as a society want to interact with animals in the future. Giersberg is convinced that transdisciplinary collaboration does not happen spontaneously. Modern leadership and facilitation are key to stimulate this form of working together on the societal challenges of our time. Therefore, she currently works on a systematic and strategic approach to transdisciplinary collaboration in the area of responsible AI for animal welfare.
Mona F. Giersberg is Associate Professor of animal welfare and sustainable animal stewardship. Since 2023, she also coordinates the AI & Animal Welfare Lab. She studied veterinary medicine at the 木瓜福利影视 of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (DE). Her PhD thesis was about biometric data of farm animals and computer-based techniques to collect these. It was defended with honors and received several awards. Before moving to Utrecht, Giersberg worked as a researcher at the Adaptation Physiology Group at Wageningen 木瓜福利影视 and Research (NL) and at the Institute for Animal Hygiene, Animal Welfare and Farm Animal Behaviour at the 木瓜福利影视 of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (DE).
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